Description

The following project shows an html webpage with a map from OpenStreetMap of the train and rail stations, and rail lines in New Zealand. The map is centered around the South Island, as that is our area of interest. The map style was created on Mapbox using a custom theme that was created. Using GeoJSON points of train stations and lines of railways were added using QGIS and then imported using Leaflet. A popup window was added to the points and lines, then the points and lines were custom styled by changing the attributes.

Design Choices

Using Mapbox a custom base map style was created. The map style chosen was a simple and easy on the eye style that can be used to minimise data shown to focus on the main points, which are the train and rail stations, and rail lines. The map style initially showed minimal data at a zoomed out level, such as city names, waterways, lakes, rivers, parks, region boundries. The design was modified in several ways to minimize the data being shown so that the train data can be the main point of attention; modifications such as:
- Text modifications: Major and small city text sizes were made smaller as they were obstructing map data.
- Color modifications: Major parks were recoloured to be less hidden, water was recoloured to blend, background was recolored to blend.
- Data removed: Some data was removed entirely such as waterways as it was not needed and just cluttered the map.
- Data modified: Some data was made to be seen only in zoomed in levels, i wanted to keep the map simple and clear at a zoomed at out level.